daily reading 10.3 (Romans 6:3–4)

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024

Our opening prayer for this week:

Drawn to the Cross, which you have blessed

With healing gifts for souls distressed,

To find in you my life, my rest,

Christ Crucified, I come.

How well you know my griefs and fears,

Your grace abused, my misspent years;

Yet now to you with contrite tears,

Christ Crucified, I come.

Wash me and take away each stain;

Let nothing of my sin remain.

For cleansing, through your cross and pain,

Christ Crucified, I come.

To pledge my labor willingly

Which shall so sweet a service be

That angels well might envy me,

Christ Crucified, I come. Amen.

 

Romans 6:3–4

• Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
• ⁴ Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.

Helpful notes on Romans 6:3–4 

For yourself pray:

• That you can share the joy and power of holy baptism with someone else

For others pray:

• That God brings peace and order to Haiti

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

• Psalm 37 (YouTube, soloist with guitar, "Wait patiently")